The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-07-29

sdeIng up to thirty ho was s0or0-
tary TO Due Pasquier, and later,
held an humble clerkship in the
Chamber of Deputies, which he re-
signed three months ago. His chief
trail is to cultivate a marble skin by
never appearing in sunlight, and to
care for his Apoll locks. He passed
for a Viscount Lacour; he lives in a
garrett, and is penniless. That's
the Lothario, who is now accused of
starting a company TO kidnap and
sequester the Virgin-divorcee, to
secure her wealth, by forcing mar
riage as the price of silencing scan
dal-an old trick in France.
M. Rubaud is a very determined
Spaniard as notary and trustee of
the lady, he offers reward of ten
thousand E1cs to discover her
prison. He holds warrants for the
arrest of all the promoters-where
ladies figure of the conspiracy COM
pany. Further, in accordance with
his legal powers, he now divides the
abducted fair ones wealth: one
third to her brother, one-third to
her sister and the rc--..... = only to
herself, if-free as she is TO marry
three months after that event, she
avows to be happy, and her hus-
band has the means of supporting
himself. If not he will deposit his
trust fund in court for the judges to
decide. The company does not APP
pear to have struck oil, and the
directors run the inevitable risk of
being transported for burking mil
lionaires. The reputation of Paris
is bad enough for murders, but if
kidnapping be added on, why life
would not be worth living-in the
capital.
France has muddled all through
the Egyptian question, since she
voluntarily backed out of the dual
control some five years ago, she has
been fretting, fmuing and angry
The Jewish bond-holders organized
the cry, for England to fix date to
quit Egypt; and when that is taken
in hand by the Anglo-Turkish con-
vention, she with the aid of Rus
sia, works on the Sultan, not to
sign, seal, and deliver the treaty,
overlooking the fact, that the nom
execution of the treaty, would be a
trump card for England. France
has shut her eyes to the A B G of
the whole question, viz, that John
would never quit the Nile, till hav-
ing taken all his measures, to bar
out any, and every foreigner, from
dropping down on the country.
The Cars recent ukase, prohibit
ing foreigners to own real property
in his empire, and to sell within
three months all the land they may
possess or the government will do
So, does not find sympathisers here,
much as the mirage of muscovite
alliance dazzles not few. Several
Austrian Poles, who reside next to
permanently in Paris-the Comte de
Potocki for example, find themselves
reduced to beggary. The Comte
possesses the most magnificent priv
ate mansion in Paris. The Due de
Nemour's son-in-law, and standing
pretender for the crown of Poland
the Prince Czartaryski, is also hit.
The sufferers, by the treaty of
Vienna, have the right "to have and
to hold" their landed estates, in
herited or purchased, though their
country has been partitioned between
the eagles-single or double necked.
Paris still labors under the scare
of the burning of the Opera Com
ique, as the theatres continue to be
deserted. 1t is not the hot weather
empties the houses, but positive
timidity of the public to be calcined.
Leading theatres which took money
nightly at this season for 2,000fr.
do not receive the one fourth of that
sum. This tells with special hard
ship on the artistes, just when their
long vacation of two months, is at
hand. 1t reacts also by holding out
no hope, that if they co-operated,
and worked themselves the theatres
as some troupes do, during the
vacation to earn crust, they would
succeed. It is not little singular,
that even the circuses and the al
perco places of amusements, fee
the effects of the panic. There is
apprehension, that the chamber will
not vote the millions for the erection
of the new Opera Comique, as the
country has mercilers fit of
economy on. Indeed the feeling is
very general, that the waste in the
finances has been objectionable,
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